The 47th Mechanized Brigade destroyed a Russian armored convoy

14 March, 2024 A convoy of Russian armored personnel carriers in Donetsk region, March 2024. Photo credits: 47th Mechanized Brigade M2 Bradley and soldiers of the 47th 'Magura' Separate Mechanized Brigade destroyed a convoy of Russian armored personnel carriers and troops in the Donetsk region.

The brigade's press service reported on this. Ukrainian troops destroyed a convoy of three BTR-80 armored personnel carriers that were moving in the Avdiyivka direction. "Another attempt to storm our positions has failed.

This is what the interaction between anti-tankers, artillery, a company of UAVs, and the Bradley crew looks like," the statement reads. The video, captured by the thermal imaging lens of a Ukrainian drone, shows the 47th Mechanized Brigade destroying a convoy of three armored vehicles.

The lead vehicle of the convoy still manages to move beyond the intersection from the ATGM line of fire but is hit by an M2 Bradley autocannon. IFV shot down a Russian armored personnel carrier transporting infantry.

A Bradley infantry fighting vehicle fires an autocannon at a Russian APC, March 2014. Photo credits: 47th Mechanized Brigade

It can be spotted that the armored personnel carrier's engine, located in the stern, probably absorbed most of the damaging elements, as after a long burst from the 25mm gun, the surviving infantrymen started to flee the vehicle.

Bradley, supported by artillery and soldiers of the 47th 'Magura' Separate Mechanized Brigade, finished them off in a forest near the road. In total, according to the statement, the soldiers of the 47th Mechanized Brigade managed to eliminate 35 Russian servicemen while repelling the offensive. "These are the units that, after our 47th Mechanized Brigade destroyed them, went to recuperate for two months and returned again.

According to the documents found in their possession, they were mobilized on March 5, 2024," the statement says. This is not the first such episode of a "meat assault" by the Russians. In early March, the 47th Mechanized Brigade, using Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and FPV drones, hit a Russian APC-82 with its troops.

The assault group of the invaders was defeated in the Avdiivka sector.

Freeze frame from the video of Strike Drones Company

The Russian armored personnel carrier with infantry did not even manage to reach its destination - they were destroyed with heavy cannon fire on the way.